Top 100 Hagen's Quotes
#1. Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters.
Mario Puzo
#2. It's called enlightenment. It's nothing more or less than seeing things as they are rather than as we wish or believe them to be.
Steve Hagen
#3. There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.
Steve Hagen
#4. If we believe in ... an everlasting self, it's tantamount to claiming that we have existed before all else came into being. We may as well fancy ourselves as being the cause of all creation.
Steve Hagen
#5. There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind
Steve Hagen
#6. You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.
Nina Hagen
#7. If it's Truth we're after, we'll find that we cannot start with any assumptions or concepts whatsoever. Instead, we must approach the world with bare, naked attention, seeing it without any mental bias - without concepts, beliefs, preconceptions, presumptions, or expectations. (6)
Steve Hagen
#8. Hagen Koch: 'There was no other transport. People on bikes could evade checkpoints, they could have secret meetings
Anna Funder
#9. Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close ... that, supposedly, I won't suspect.
Hagen: Somebody like me.
Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you.
Hagen: I'm German-American.
Michael: To them that's Irish.
Mario Puzo
#10. I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'
Nina Hagen
#11. When we latch on to an identity, it is easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting. It doesn't have to be this way. The fact is, I'm not anything in particular. Nor are you. Nor is anyone.
Steve Hagen
#13. One day, soon after the Buddha's enlightenment, a man saw the Buddha walking toward him. The man had not heard of the Buddha, but he could see that there was something different about the man who was approaching, so he was moved to ask, Are you a god?
Steve Hagen
#14. You're my best friend. Why should I be happy to see you go?
George Hagen
#15. The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.
Carl I. Hagen
#16. But you're the best cook ever, and I'm the best eater ever. We're perfect for each other. Tank pouted.
Lynn Hagen
#17. Our ignorance is such that most of us don't realize we're thirsty. Or, if we realize we're thirsty, we look for water in the wrong place. We go into fire looking for cool refreshment. And often we're confused about what our thirst actually is.
Steve Hagen
#18. The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.
Steve Hagen
#19. Our problem is that we don't pay attention to what we actually know. We give our attention to what we think - to what we have ideas or beliefs about - and we discard what we actually see.
Steve Hagen
#20. To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
Uta Hagen
#21. My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals.
Nina Hagen
#22. I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.
Walter Hagen
#23. To deny a concept is not to embrace its opposite.
Steve Hagen
#24. We all know the maxim "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." It's because we want the horse to drink that we become frustrated, because it's literally not in our power to accomplish the job we've set out to do for ourselves.
Steve Hagen
#25. I need you in a way I never thought I could need anything. It's like air. You don't notice how much you need it until you don't have it. I love you, Aimee.
Layla Hagen
#26. [W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self.
Steve Hagen
#27. It is not the perceived power of money and fame that will change the course of events in one's life, but empathy.
Trever Hagen
#28. All we ever find is the arising and ceasing of the world as it has come to be now. When you snap your fingers, it's already gone. All that persists is thus. Thus is not an object of mind but Mind Itself.
Steve Hagen
#29. You're the beat to my heart, the oxygen in my lungs, and the whisper to my soul," Murdock recited as he stared Heaven in his eyes.
Lynn Hagen
#30. Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on
not on our own terms, but on the world's.
Steve Hagen
#32. Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
Uta Hagen
#33. I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
Uta Hagen
#34. The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.
Carl I. Hagen
#35. I used to believe that the experiences life throws at us shape us. Now I think that it's the way we cope with what life throws our way that shapes us.
Layla Hagen
#36. I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.
Nina Hagen
#37. Consciousness divides Reality. It conceptualises it, packages it, and explains it to itself. Then in our ignorance, we think it's taking readings on things 'out there.
Steve Hagen
#38. It's still weird seeing you with a guy," Vick said. "Not that I'm against two wieners tucking into each other's buns. To each his own.
Lynn Hagen
#39. Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
Uta Hagen
#40. Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.
Fritz Weaver
#41. You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.
Walter Hagen
#42. Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
Uta Hagen
#43. I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
Nina Hagen
#44. When we latch on to an identity, it's easy to take offence. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and reacting.
Steve Hagen
#45. A child's name is his portal to the world.
George Hagen
#46. [O]nce in a while there's that fleeting moment when the kindest thing you can do for another is to utter a severe word or a sharp observation that may hurt momentarily;
Steve Hagen
#47. Rituals, ceremonies, prayers, and special outfits are inevitable, but they do not - they cannot - express the heart of what the Buddha taught. In fact, all too often, such things get in the way. They veil the simple wisdom of the Buddha's words, and distract us from it.
Steve Hagen
#48. [S]elfless action, action done while free of a sense of self. Action in which you don't see yourself as separate from other things.
Steve Hagen
#49. After ... all the philosophy and science that we've laboured on for centuries, it's becoming very hard to find a story we can buy.
Steve Hagen
#50. No words - Buddha's, mine, or anyone else's - can see for you.
Steve Hagen
#51. By simply attending to how we feel without trying to judge or change our feelings, we may notice that there's no real distinction between self and other. If it's a grey day inside, ... it's a grey day outside as well.
Steve Hagen
#52. I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.
Nina Hagen
#53. He told me to tell you
you could have everything you want and do everything you want as long as you take good care of the kids." Hagen smiled. "He said to tell you that you're his Don. That's just a joke.
Jon Hagen
#54. I used to hate waking up every morning. Now I look forward to every day, even though we're stuck in this place. Because it means one more day with you.
Layla Hagen
#55. The moment that we hold some solidified idea about Reality- rather than relying on direct perception of the world- we inevitably give rise to anxiety and fear.
Steve Hagen
#56. [W]hat purpose does it serve to deny actual experience in order to run with an idea instead?
Steve Hagen
#57. When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.
Nina Hagen
#58. Look dude, no humping the redhead until we see if the rabbit dies.
Lynn Hagen
#59. A buddha recognizes that anything put into speech is never completely reliable.
Steve Hagen
#60. We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
Uta Hagen
#61. The buddha-dharma ... is about directly seeing Truth, prior to forming any ideas about it. It is about responding to each particular situation as it comes ... , not according to some ... program of dos and don'ts.
Steve Hagen
#62. [L]iberation [doesn't occur] in wearing robes or performing ritual acts.
Steve Hagen
#63. Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#64. It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
Uta Hagen
#65. We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.
Steve Hagen
#66. Nothing holds us back but our thoughts.
Steve Hagen
#67. To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe.
Steve Hagen
#68. Hagen turned his back to her. Who could blame him? Why he hadn't dropped her yet she didn't know. Masochism maybe? Heroism? Maybe he wanted to save her. Maybe he was too embarrassed to admit he couldn't. And
Tiffany Reisz
#69. The issues of what a self is, how long it will last, what will happen when our bodies decay and consciousness flickers off, are all based not on what we actually see but on what we imagine.
Steve Hagen
#70. Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.
Steve Hagen
#71. If you point out the moon to a cat, she probably won't look at the sky; she'll come up and sniff your finger.
Steve Hagen
#72. We must overcome the notion that we must be regular ... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
Uta Hagen
#73. Lady Gaga is a pop prostitute, a satanic b
with her fascist and demonic secret signs! Her pop prostitution has more to do with bikini advertising than with warmth,
Nina Hagen
#74. True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.
Steve Hagen
#75. We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!
Nina Hagen
#76. Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do it to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be.
Steve Hagen
#77. We can easily see what actions and speech will lead us and others into hatred, confusion, difficulty, and suffering. And we can see what words and actions will not. ... Is our intention to hoodwink, mislead, inflate, or deceive others ... ?
Steve Hagen
#78. [T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.
Steve Hagen
#80. We cannot. . .begin any real inquiry into Truth, with any assumption or belief whatsoever. We must be willing to see things as they are, rather than as we hope, wish, or expect them to be.
Steve Hagen
#81. Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
Uta Hagen
#82. Your breath is a unique object to meditation because it resides right at the boundary between inside and outside, between you and the outside world.
Steve Hagen
#83. Mindfulness of the body is awareness of ... the taste and smell of this moment.
Steve Hagen
#84. The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.
Steve Hagen
#85. Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
Walter Hagen
#86. Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.
Walter Hagen
#87. The biggest mistake we make in confusing a concept with Reality is in ... the separation of self and other.
Steve Hagen
#88. Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
Mario Puzo
#89. I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
Uta Hagen
#90. I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.
Nina Hagen
#91. [W]e're caught by our concepts ... [C]oncepts are not Reality.
Steve Hagen
#92. What makes human life
which is inseparable from this moment
so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.
Steve Hagen
#93. The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
Uta Hagen
#94. All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
Uta Hagen
#95. I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
Walter Hagen
#96. This desire to hold on, to somehow stop change in its tracks, is the greatest source of woe and horror and trouble in our lives.
Steve Hagen
#97. My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
Walter Hagen
#98. No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
Uta Hagen
#99. We've formed many a theory and belief, but as we look about the human world, it is clear that nobody actually knows what's going on. Yet claims to Truth are being made at every hand, including the claim that there is no Truth.
Steve Hagen
#100. This moment is complete unto itself. There's nothing lacking in this moment
Steve Hagen
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